GSK coughs up £1.6bn for Bellus as pharma giant boosts its patent medicine cabinet April 18, 2023 GSK plans to buy developer Bellus Health in an all-cash deal for £1.6bn as the drugmaker expands its bet on respiratory therapies.
London pair defy odds to grow clothing company April 18, 2023 Nwanne Maduanusi was on the bus when she had the idea that would become Simply Asoebi. “I used to make earrings and thought, ‘oooh it would be nice to include my earrings inside asoebi packages’”, she says. Then she messaged her friend, Moyo Castano, and they decided to go into business together. “Asoebi” is a [...]
Fashion for change as Pretty Little Thing founder quits to build ‘new brands’ April 17, 2023 Umar Kamani, the founder and chief executive of Pretty Little Thing, is stepping down from the fashion brand after 12 years at the helm. Kamani, who founded the business in 2012 with his brother in his home town of Manchester, said he was leaving the £3.8bn company to explore new challenges and “build new brands”. [...]
Renaming the Met Police would give it a license to ignore wholesale reform April 17, 2023 After scandal after scandal have rocked the Metropolitan Police, and the Casey review has found shocking sexism, racism and homophobia. A new name won't change its habits, writes Eliot Wilson.
We either need to break up broadband monopolies or nationalise connectivity April 14, 2023 The internet and broadband connection has become a fourth utility and a market we need to take just as seriously to protect consumers from rising prices, writes Jon Seal. Think about it, if the water stops how long will it take you to notice? Turn off the internet, and with the majority of us glued [...]
Dame Mary Quant: British fashion designer who popularised the mini skirt dies aged 93 April 13, 2023 Fashion designer Dame Mary Quant, who was widely credited with popularising the mini skirt, has died at the age of 93, her family said. The British fashion designer died peacefully at her home in Surrey on Thursday morning, a statement from her family to the PA news agency said. A statement released on behalf of her family [...]
Ed Warner: British amateur sport must take a match to bonfire of bureaucracy April 13, 2023 Different patterns of belonging in this social media age are a stiff challenge to those of us attempting to build membership rosters for sporting bodies. What can we offer to persuade amateur athletes and casual fans to give a chunk of their identities – and a few quid from their virtual wallets – to organisations [...]
Five things we learned from Elon Musk’s interview with the BBC April 12, 2023 Elon Musk plans to revoke a disputed “government funded media” label Twitter attributed to the BBC, claims advertisers are returning to the platform and admitted that he sometimes sleeps in the office. The billionaire chief executive — who is also at the head of electric car maker, Tesla, and spacecraft manufacturer, SpaceX — made the [...]
Explainer: Elon Musk enters – and exits – another BBC row April 12, 2023 What are two things that never grow old? Rows over BBC funding and Elon Musk’s bizarre decisions about Twitter. Now the two have come together, sparking a conversation that reaches from North America to the UK. It all started a couple of days ago when a Twitter badge appeared on the BBC Twitter page describing [...]
CBI crisis deepens as police now investigating misconduct claims after Danker’s dismissal April 12, 2023 Police have launched an investigation after the Confederation of British Industry sacked boss Tony Danker and suspended three other employees following a series of misconduct allegations. The board of the business group said Mr Danker’s conduct “fell short” of what was expected of him and said there had been “serious failings” in how it acted [...]